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Sister Judith, the director of the Vatican website, discusses the challenges of building a site for one of the world's oldest organizations.
http://blogs.sun.com/lskrocki/entry/does_the_pope_surf_the
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Sister_Judith_We_don_t_know_what_OS_God_uses…

http://dmiessler.com/study/lsof/

http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

http://www.google.com/a/

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/21/lapdawg_cool_inbed_l.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/21/flame_first_think_la.html

In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on his laptop? The following are reasons why I think my fellow females should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention to the flashy boys.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/66795671.html
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Best_of_Craigslist_Why_Geeks_and_Nerds_Mak…

Linus Torvalds can program without a keyboard.
Linus Torvalds doesn't receive error messages.
Linus Torvalds can play 3D games in his head by interpreting the source code in real-time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Everything_you_always_wanted_to_…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/25_Things_you_never_knew_about_Linus_Torvalds

Within only a few days of Dell opening a new customer feedback website, they discovered that the feature most requested (by an almost 2-to-1 margin!) is an option on all new Dell PCs: pre-installed Linux. (And the number 3 request is pre-installed Open Office.)
http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/61771
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Pre_Installed_Linux_Tops_Dell_Customer_Reque…

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http://digg.com/offbeat_news/You_are_alone_on_an_uninhabited_island

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/02/18/free_beer/
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Open_Source_Beer_FREE_BEER

In a speech Friday night to the Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, Google co-founder Larry Page stated that Google was developing Artificial Intelligence and that the company wasn't far off from completing real AI.
http://www.901am.com/2007/google-to-rule-the-earth.html
http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_developing_Artificial_Intelligence

poenok a hozzaszolasokbol:
What would you call a Google made artificial intelligence product?
Google Thinks
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on the 19th of the 2nd 2007 skynet was born..
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Where the F*** is John Conor?
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Your search - shut down GOOGLELORD - did not match any documents.

http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/02/computer-gadgets-roundup-fu…

Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!
http://shutdownday.com/
http://digg.com/tech_news/Can_you_survive_for_24_hours_without_your_com…

The Google engineers just published a paper on Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Based on a study of 100,000 disk drives over 5 years they find some interesting stuff. To quote from the abstract: 'Our analysis identifies several parameters from the drive's self monitoring facility (SMART) that correlate highly with failures. Despite this high correlation, we conclude that models based on SMART parameters alone are unlikely to be useful for predicting individual drive failures. Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated with drive failures than previously reported.'
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/18/0420247&threshold=4

Patrick Robib, a blogger who wrote his own blogging engine called Forest Blog recently noticed that none other than the MPAA was using his work, and had completely violated his linkware license by removing all links back to the Forest Blog site, not crediting him in any way. The MPAA blog was using the Forest Blog software, but had completely stripped off his name, and links back to his site. He only found about it accidentally when he happened to visit the MPAA site.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/18/0458213&threshold=4

The flame wars between Linus Torvalds and the GNOME community continue to burn. Responding to Torvalds' recent claim that GNOME 'seems to be developed by interface Nazis' and that its developers believe their 'users are idiots,' a member of the Linux Foundation's Desktop Architects mailing list suggested that Torvalds use GNOME for a month before making such pronouncements. Torvalds, never one to back down from a challenge, simply turned around and submitted patches to GNOME and then told the list, '...let's see what happens to my patches. I guarantee you that they actually improve the code.' After lobbing that over the fence, Torvalds concluded his comments by saying, 'Now the question is, will people take the patches, or will they keep their heads up their arses and claim that configurability is bad, even when it makes things more logical, and code more readable.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/17/0219225&from=rss

"Looks like Google has announced that it will be doing Summer of Code again this year. The program looks pretty much the same this year but they have built time into the program schedule for students to get up to speed before they start coding. Nice job, Google.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/16/0419246&threshol…

Ted 'series of tubes' Stevens has introduced a bill, going by the interim name S.49, that aims to block access to interactive websites from schools and libraries. The wording of the bill is vague enough to apply to Wikipedia, MySpace (and other social networking sites), and potentially even to blogs. The bill is apparently so similar to the failed Deleting Online Predators Act of last year that it has been termed 'Son of DOPA' by some.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/1644226&threshold=4

Many of these databases hold several petabytes of data. Included on the list are Google, ChoicePoint, and the CIA, the largest one will surprise you.
http://www.businessintelligencelowdown.com/2007/02/top_10_largest_.html
http://digg.com/software/Top_10_Largest_Databases_in_the_World

Asian countries have started switching from proprietary software such as Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft to open source Click for Open Source Router - Firewall from Vyatta Latest News about open source software, it was reported Tuesday at the eighth annual Asia Open Source Software Symposium (AOSSS) in Denpasar, Indonesia. Experts and information technology practitioners from Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and ASEAN member countries are attending the conference.
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/55751.html
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Asian_Countries_Making_the_Switch_to_Open_So…

For 2006, Al Gillen, research vice president of system software at IDC, told an early morning audience that the research firm has pegged the Linux ecosystem that includes servers and software to be worth $18 billion. By 2010, Gillen said, the market will be worth $40 billion.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/internetnews_…

Hacker Joanna Rutkowska has flagged a "very severe hole" in the design of Windows Vista's User Account Controls (UAC) feature. The issue is that Vista automatically assumes that all setup programs (application installers) should be run with administrator privileges — and gives the user no option to let them run without elevated privileges. This means that a freeware Tetris installer would be allowed to load kernel drivers. Microsoft's Mark Russinovich acknowledges the risk factor but says it was a 'design choice' to balance security with ease of use.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1922237&from=rss

Firefox has reached a new milestone: 300,000,000 downloads since its initial release back in November 9, 2004. That ’s 825 days ago, which makes a cute rate of : 363,636.3636..downloads/day
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/02/firefox-300-million-downloads/
http://digg.com/software/Firefox_300_million_downloads

Virgin America invited us to check out the way-decked Airbus A320 with Red prototype in-flight entertainment system: they definitely weren't kidding when they said it's got it all. Movies on demand, pervasive music playlists, in-seat messaging with a QWERTY controller, touchscreen Linux consoles with games, the works!
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/10/mega-hands-on-virgin-americas-airbus…